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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Karzai in India on crucial visit

Afghanistan
and India set to forge
closer ties as Afghan leader visits New
Delhi during an unstable time in region.

Last
Modified:04 Oct 2011 07:29

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan
president, has arrived in New Delhi on a
two-day visit described by India
as an opportunity for both countries to consolidate their strategic partnership
and discuss bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual concern.

Tuesday's visit comes against a backdrop of shifting relations in the
region.

During his second trip to the
Indian capital this year, Karzai will meet Manmohan Singh, the Indian
prime minister, and sign several strategic agreements, including ones on
development aid and security.

Some analysts in India predict that Karzai will elevate the role
of India
in stabilising his violence-torn country as he eyes a drawdown of US-led troops
by 2014 after more than a decade of fighting.

They argue that Karzai is losing
patience with Pakistan, whom
he accuses of funding anti-government groups, and is unable to count on
the US.

"Karzai's visit comes at a crucial juncture to endorse India's involvement in Afghanistan,"
Saeed Naqvi from the Observer Research Foundation think-tank told the AFP news
agency.

"Karzai is coming to India
to confer on India
the tag 'reliable ally'... India
will get the right to play a more pronounced role [in Afghanistan]
after Karzai's visit."

TheIndian Expressnewspaper reported on Sunday that
Karzai would sign a "strategic partnership" agreement with
Singh, the first such pact with any country in the world.

The proposed alliance, which foreign ministry officials declined to confirm,
was said to include an Indian commitment to increase its training of Afghan
security forces, including the police.

Indian involvement in Afghanistan
is sensitive because of the delicate and often deadly power games in South Asia.

Pakistan's
'double-game'

In a primetime national address on Monday, Karzai accused Pakistan of "pursuing a double-game",
saying Islamabad is not co-operating in the
battle against armed groups to establish peace in Afghanistan.

Karzai said he had always stood by friendly relations with Pakistan,
hoping to face the challenge of cross-border extremism together, but his
neighbour had failed him, continuing to use "terrorism as a means".

"The Islamic republic of Pakistan
has not co-operated with us to bring peace and security to Afghanistan,
which is unfortunate for us," he said.

He also called for a review of
his country's plans to pursue peace with the Taliban, saying he will focus on
talking to governments and not specific groups related to them.

Karzai acknowledged
that his efforts for peace had failed as his overtures were met with more
violence and targeted killings, most recently of his chief peace negotiator,
Burhanuddin Rabbani.

"The killings show that our
call for peace has not seen a positive response. One-sided desire for peace
will not bring a resolution. Peace can only be achieved with those who believe
in it."

"We have to fight decisively
against those who do not believe in peace."

Karzai's comments follow Pakistan's criticism by Admiral Mike
Mullen, chairman of the US
joint chiefs of staff, who accused Pakistan's
intelligence agency last month of playing a role in the recent attack on
the US embassy in Kabul.

Mullen called the powerful
Haqqani network, operating out of Pakistan's
borderlands, a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's military intelligence.

The comments did not go down
well with Pakistan.

Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani
prime minister, convened an all-party conference to discuss the US allegations
and draft a strategy on how to move forward in the relationship.

In particular to accusations from
Afghanistan, Pakistan has
asked for the "blame game" to be stopped.

"Certain forces are at work
to destabilise Afghanistan
and Karzai should not play in their hands. Instead we should get united to foil
their machinations," Gilani said on Sunday, according to the Pakistani
paper,Daily Times.

Gilani said his government
was committed to bringing peace through dialogue with Taliban in the tribal
areas. They would not disarm but only "decommission" the Taliban, he
said.

'No ties with ISI'

In a related
development, the leader of the Haqqani network has rejected US allegations
that his group is linked to Pakistan's
intelligence agency, the ISI.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, in an interview with BBC
Pashto, denied that the Haqqanis, blamed for the recent high-profile attacks on
Western targets in Kabul,
were behind the killing of Rabbani.

"We haven't killed Burhanuddin Rabbani and
this has been said many times by the spokespersons of the Islamic
Emirate," he said, referring to the Taliban

Afghan officials have blamed the Taliban for the
September 20 turban bombing, saying Rabbani's killer was Pakistani
and that the attack was plotted by the Afghan Taliban's leadership
body, the Quetta Shura, in Pakistan.

However, no Afghan officials have specifically
accused the Haqqani network over the killing.

The network is considered loyal to the Taliban
supreme leader, Mullah Omar, and has a seat on the Taliban leadership council.

Afghan officials say they have shared their
investigation with Pakistani authorities and that they will request a UN
inquiry into the murder if Islamabad
refuses to co-operate.

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